Example sentences for: arcana

How can you use “arcana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The overall mining coverage is fairly steeped in the arcana of international treaties and weapons systems, giving it a rather remote flavor.

  • They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.

  • Thus it is user-unfriendly of a dictionary—any reference book, in fact—to exhibit a style so involved as to be virtually unassimilable save by a dedicated, experienced few: except for the arcana, dictionary style should be revealed transparently to anyone picking up the book, and no one should be required to take a course in dictionary navigation or to spend half an hour adjusting his eyes to read reams of six-point type.

  • But as I slavishly grind away at the keyboard coding my assigned arcana, I often observe my neuronic (or is it neurotic?)

  • The Alphabet Abecedarium is the bibliophile's answer to the botanist's stroll through the garden, being an eminently enjoyable omnium gatherum of recondite, recherché, and obscure arcana and lore about the letters of our Latin alphabet written in a light, conversational, self-deprecatory, tongue-in-cheek style.


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